00:00You know that feeling when you brace yourself before you're about to hit a really deep pothole?
00:04Well here near Worms Hill that happens quite often and residents say it's just not good enough.
00:10Those who live in the Wormhill village say driving in the area is costing them hundreds of pounds worth of
00:15damage
00:16and they worry their roads are being forgotten about by the council.
00:19Several people have reported issues since the end of last year
00:23and it's taken three months for any repair work to be carried out.
00:26Two of those people is Blake and his girlfriend Abigail.
00:30It's always been an issue potholes but they used to get fixed so it's definitely taken a turn for the
00:37worse
00:37since the change in council really.
00:40Normally what would happen is a big pothole like the ones down the road would be reported
00:45and you'd have someone mark it within what week maybe
00:50and then you'd get a temporary fill in and then it would get fixed right
00:53especially a bad one because obviously people's cars on the line.
00:57This has been since Christmas.
00:59Yeah I mean there's probably 20 of them and I mean our car's been had two wheels broken.
01:07My neighbour across the road he's had a good couple broken.
01:11Probably a good maybe six people have had their cars broken.
01:15Their neighbour Mike has been using his daughter's car while his is getting repaired.
01:20He needs it to look after his ill father.
01:22For the last five or six weeks I've been running around in my daughter's car
01:26which particularly living where I am you know it's been a godsend.
01:31It's absolutely essential to have transport.
01:35I don't know what I would have done without it.
01:38Me having had two experiences in the last three months that are going to cost me potentially
01:44getting on for £5,000 if you add the two up.
01:47So I think particularly having just got my revised council tax bill which is going up £20
01:56and I'm single occupancy you know so for other people in this area it's going to be even more.
02:03I think it's long overdue that something is done to address the situation.
02:10While the council had arrived to fill in some potholes while we were there Mike says it's too late.
02:15For people living here they say the problem goes deeper than the potholes.
02:19It's about the impact on their daily lives and feeling left behind.
02:23Kristen Hawthorne for KMTV Wormshill.
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